This week on the farm

STRAWBERRIES !

Sauvie Island Farms has an abundance of strawberries for you to pick. The Hood, Honeoye, and Shuksan fields are loaded with beautiful, sweet and easy to pick strawberries. There couldn't be a better time to come out and pick some Oregon grown strawberries. Pick Your Own strawberries are just $1.50 per lb.

Our peonies are blooming and ready to be cut also! The peonies won't last much longer, so if you are looking for some early season fresh cut flowers....NOW is the time to get these beauties.

We have had a cool wet year so far, but our berries are loving this weather. The raspberries are still over a week away from being ripe and the blueberries will come quickly after that. The vines are loaded with berries, so once they start to ripen we will have an abundance of these also!

Help us spread the word that there are excellent strawberries to be picked at SAUVIE ISLAND FARMS.

Sauvie Island Farms 2011

Sauvie Island Farms is looking forward to some warmer weather and opening the season with PICK YOUR OWN STRAWBERRIES

Opening day for the strawberry season will be Wednesday, June 15

Our farm hours are 8am - 7pm Monday-Saturday

Most of our crops will be 2 weeks later than usual this year

The peonies are just starting to open up

Lupine is blooming

We are planting a variety of veggies for you to pick this season.
Hope to see you soon on the farm!

Sauvie Island Farms Christmas Trees

Santa is coming to Sauvie Island Farms

Saturday, December 11th from 11am- 2pm.
Come out to the farm, choose and cut your own christmas tree from over 10 acres of Douglas, Grand and Noble fir trees.

Warm up by the fire with a cookie and some hot chocolate!
Start your holiday tradition at Sauvie Island Farms!

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas....

Sauvie Island Farms

Choose & Cut Christmas Trees
Opens NOVEMBER 26 for the 2010 season!

We have three types of fir trees for you to choose from.

Noble- table top size to 6 ft for $5 per ft

Grand-table top size to 7 ft for $4 per ft

Douglas-table top size to 10 ft for $3 per ft

We are open weekdays from noon-5pm & Saturdays 10am-5pm.

We provide saws, tree carts, and a shaker & baler.

Check out our website for a discount coupon, more info & directions to the farm.

http://www.sauvieislandfarms.com/

Hope to see you on the farm this holiday season!

Tomatoes???

This has been a challenging year on the farm, due mostly to the random weather changes. Many of the crops were planted later than usual, and are being harvested later than usual. On the farm right now, we have a great planting of green tomatoes. We keep watching them, hoping that they will start to turn red. Since it gets so cold at night, we really don't know if they will ever ripen. There are plenty of green tomatoes to be picked, so if you have any good recipes for green tomatoes, this is the year to use them!! One of our long time employees, Sherri, wants to share one of her favorite recipes with us today. She says that this a favorite of her husband. He puts it on everything. Really?...everything?...well, you get the picture. It's a good relish recipe! So if you want to try something new, and you are looking for an easy canning project this cool, rainy weekend, come out, pick some green tomatoes and give it a try. Then let us know if you like it!!

Green Tomato Relish:
1 peck of green tomatoes. (a peck is is equal to a 5 gallon bucket)

3 green peppers

3 red peppers

8 lg onions

Grind with food processor. Add 1/2 cup salt. Let stand overnight.
Next day: Put in cloth bag (or colander with tiny holes) Drain juice.

Place in pan and add 1 small bottle of horseradish, 2 T tumeric, one full can of whole spices (put in cloth and tie with rubber band), 6 cups sugar and 3 cups vinegar. Boil for 1 hour. (remove the spice bundle) Put in jars & seal while hot. Makes approx. 20 cups of relish.

September on the farm

Beginning, Tuesday, September 7th, Sauvie Island Farms will be closed on

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

We will be open Thursday, Friday and Saturday~ 9am-7pm.

There are still a few Elberta peaches that need a few days to ripen, as well as, sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, zucchini and Chester Blackberries. The season is over for pickling cukes and green beans although if you like to hunt for them, you might find a few left in the field. We also continue to have beautiful flowers blooming in the u-cut garden.

Labor Day Weekend on the farm

Sauvie Island Farms will be open 9am-7pm on Saturday, September 4th & also Monday, September 6th. We are always closed on Sundays.

We have beautiful Chester blackberries for you to pick. These berries have become a favorite for many! They are easy to pick, no thorns on the vines, and the berries are sweet and seedless! The blackberries are just $1.75 per lb for u-pick. If you are looking for a good dessert recipe using blackberries, check this one out: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/08/the_great_cobbl/

We also have beautiful flowers blooming on the farm this first week of September!

The Honey Select and Bodacious Sweet Corn is also ready to pick. We have the end of the season green beans and pickling cucumbers, as well as zucchini, cabbage, cauliflower and an assortment of peppers.

Saturday we will have the orchard open for Elberta peaches. We do not have a lot of trees in this variety so they will most likely get picked out sometime on Saturday. This will be the end of the 2010 peach season when they are all gone.